Structure and agency in the age of climate change

Title: Structure and agency in the age of climate change
Creator: Cherry, Janet
Subject: South Africa -- Economic conditions
Subject: South Africa -- Social conditions
Subject: f-sa
Type: text
Type: Lectures
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/21033
Identifier: vital:29429
Description: What I will present here is based on my grappling over the past three decades with one of the central problems of social science – the relationship between social structure and human agency. This is not a new problem for social scientists; from Karl Marx, who understood that human beings make history, but not in circumstances of their choosing; to the French structuralists who conceived the term ‘relative autonomy’ and ‘overdetermination’; to Anthony Giddens’ ‘structuration theory’ and other contemporary sociologists. What is new are the changing physical circumstances of the world in which we live, which mean that human society can no longer afford to analyse ourselves and our social, political and economic systems independently of the natural world.
Format: 10 pages
Publisher: Nelson Mandela University
Publisher: Faculty of Business and Economic Sciences
Language: English
Relation: Inaugural lectures
Relation: Inaugural lectures 2015
Rights: Nelson Mandela University

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